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Your San Luis Obispo High School Counseling Team!
Your San Luis Obispo High School Counseling Team!
The Counseling Department at San Luis Obispo High School is here to serve, support and advocate for our students.
Please be sure to read the Daily Bulletin each day to learn about special grade level parent nights, college workshops, enrichment opportunities, and more. We serve students and families alphabetically by last name.
SLOHS_Profile_20230925.pdfThe San Luis Obispo High SChool
The San Luis Obispo High SChool
2023-2024 SCHOOL PROFILE
2023-2024 SCHOOL PROFILE
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Class of 2023 Congratulations!
Where the SLOHS grads go 2023.pdfCopy of SLOHS Counseling FAQs - Google Docs.pdf<----- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNSELING FAQS
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SAN LUIS OBISPO HIGH SCHOOL CEEB CODE: 053-145
SAN LUIS OBISPO HIGH SCHOOL CEEB CODE: 053-145
The Essential Role of High School Counselors
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TED TALKS & ARTICLES worth your time
TED TALKS & ARTICLES worth your time
Posted 5/31/2022
Washington Post writer
Kate Cohen encourages grads to write thank you notes for those graduation gifts and get personal.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
June 21, 2023
The most lucrative majors?
Some community college grads can outearn elite university peers.
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TIME MAGAZINE April 5, 2022
“A rejected student is still as bright, talented, and full of potential as he was before the rejection,” reminds Sabky. “If we teach our young people that they are no ‘less’ because of a rejection (and no ‘more’ because of an admission), it can remind them that what matters most is not the name on their college sweatshirt, but who is wearing it.”
https://time.com/charter/6164408/what-college-rejections-can-mean/
The WASHINGTON POST
August 6, 2022
How to ease the transition to college when mental health is a concern
Especially since the pandemic began, conversations about mental health have become more common, so students should find a person they feel safe to talk with about their concerns.
By Fran Kritz
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Preparing Students for Life & Higher Education
Teaching Life Skills and Financial Literacy
Preparing Students for the Workforce:
Study Smarter, Not Harder: A Practical Guide to Teaching Study Skills
FORBES MAGAZINE FEB 14, 2022 College Decisions and their impact on lives and futures
”selectivity is not a proxy for quality, especially in a time when applications are increasing at incredible rates at some of the most selective schools. Exceptional colleges and universities come in all shapes, sizes, and admit rates.”
From the Principal's Newsletter October 24, 2021
"These messages about achievement and narrow definitions of success as markers of personal worthiness make it harder for our kids to choose a college that is a good fit for them over a more prestigious school."
Washington Post Oct. 17, 2020
Washington Post Oct. 17, 2020
"An applicant should consider this: “Is what you’ve realized, what you’ve lived, or what you’ve done unique to you, or something the kids within your neighboring Zip codes are also experiencing?”
"There are fresh ways to write about the worst year ever. Perhaps it gave you a chance to have long talks with your mother about how much she hated growing up in poverty but later realized that the frugality ingrained in her was a gift. Maybe the political sniping you saw so much on cable news led you to want to study how democracies, particularly ours, can find ways to unite when times are bad."
LAUNCH to COLLEGE! OCt 2020.pdfCOLLEGE NIGHT 2020
COLLEGE NIGHT 2020
POWERPOINT:
POWERPOINT:
LAUNCH to COLLEGE !
LAUNCH to COLLEGE !
Preparing 9th & 10th graders for College and Life!
October 26, 2020
Julie Lythcott-Haims:
Julie Lythcott-Haims:
How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting
How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON POST
More than 300 College Deans Explain what they want - and don't want - to see from applications in the Covid -19 era
More than 300 College Deans Explain what they want - and don't want - to see from applications in the Covid -19 era
by Valerie Strauss June 29, 2020 CLICK IMAGE
Here’s an example: “We, emphatically, do not seek to create a competitive public service ‘Olympics’ in response to this pandemic. What matters to us is whether students’ contribution or service is authentic and meaningful to them and to others, whether that contribution is writing regular notes to frontline workers or checking in with neighbors who are isolated. We will assess these contributions and service in the context of the obstacles students are facing.”
APPLYING TO THE COLLEGE DURING THE PANDEMIC?
APPLYING TO THE COLLEGE DURING THE PANDEMIC?
THE NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 14, 2020 by: Judy Mandell
THE NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 14, 2020 by: Judy Mandell
"In hopes of providing some guidance to students and their parents, I asked college admissions officers to offer advice about the process in the year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tim Wolfe, associate vice president for enrollment and dean of admission, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
"The application is a chance for us to hear a student’s story and listen to their voice — that hasn’t changed in 2020, and it is likely more important than ever that we continue to engage in this process from a holistic perspective."
Parenteen
Parenteen
comes from the Committee for Children, the non-profit behind Second Step -our K/8 SEL Curriculum.
There are excellent videos and next steps concerning teens and Responsibility, Communication & Independence.
Kelly McGonigal talks about turning stress into a positive
Kelly McGonigal talks about turning stress into a positive
WASHINGTON POST 12/25/2020
WASHINGTON POST 12/25/2020
More info is available about which college majors pay off, but students aren’t using it. Advocates say increased attention to return on investment may be about to change that.
WASHINGTON POST April 20, 2020
COLLEGE and the COVID 19
Andrew B. Palumbo, Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid Worcester Polytechnic Institute provides good counsel to high school juniors.
"Uncertainty marks today, tomorrow, and the foreseeable future. But I encourage you to accept what you can’t change and try to focus on the things that you can."
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
The NEW YORK TIMES
The NEW YORK TIMES
Aug 18, 2018 HAPPY CHILDREN DO CHORES
Aug 18, 2018 HAPPY CHILDREN DO CHORES
By KJ DEIL'ANTONIA
By KJ DEIL'ANTONIA
"And yet, when researchers ask parents about what qualities they care most about fostering in their children, almost all respond by saying they are deeply invested in raising caring, ethical children, and most say they see these moral qualities like these as more important than academic or career achievements. "
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With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom.
With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom.
"In childhood, we associate responsibility with the dutiful fulfillment of obligations and duties: performing household chores, completing homework assignments, brushing teeth at bedtime. A responsible child is a compliant child, as it is ultimately the parent who owns the younger child’s responsibilities.
In adolescence, we expect more initiative and investment regarding duties and obligations, but most parents don’t abdicate oversight altogether. In other words, the parent and adolescent co-own the adolescent’s responsibilities.
The most reliable signal that the transition to emerging adulthood has begun is evidence that the child has begun taking sole ownership of these responsibilities — independent of parental involvement — via personal initiative and follow-through."
REJECTIONS HURT.
REJECTIONS HURT.
Here's how to HELP YOUR CHILD DURING THE COLLEGE - ACCEPTANCE SEASON
Here's how to HELP YOUR CHILD DURING THE COLLEGE - ACCEPTANCE SEASON
Build resilience early, preemptively dufusing disappointment, responding to rejection, and moving on...
Build resilience early, preemptively dufusing disappointment, responding to rejection, and moving on...
From Psychology Today
From Psychology Today
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January 25,2017
January 25,2017
Admissions scandal exposes much that’s wrong with what we teach kids to value - Los Angeles Times March 15, 2019
Admissions scandal exposes much that’s wrong with what we teach kids to value - Los Angeles Times March 15, 2019
STEVE LOPEZ
"The college entrance scandal is an extreme example of how parents have bought into a high-pressure culture of expectation that might be more harmful than helpful, especially for those who put more weight on a fancy diploma than a life of meaning."
WASHINGTON POST Sept 17 by Ned Johnson
"Something has clearly gone wrong when parents are prepared to risk not just their own integrity but also their kids’, as well as their freedom. And while the message that these guilty parents held in mind may have been I would do ANYTHING for you to have opportunity and success, here are the actual messages these young people received, all of which undermine their autonomy:
If you do not go to an elite enough college, you will not be successful in life.
You really cannot do this without me.
Where you go to college matters more than your (or my) integrity.
If you work hard and fall short of your goal, you cannot handle the rejection or adversity."
Is college worth it?
Is college worth it?
Washington Post, November 14, 2019
Washington Post, November 14, 2019
Researchers at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce tried to answer that question, using newly released federal data to try to calculate return on investment for thousands of colleges across the country.
The results — searchable and sortable online — with rankings of 4,500 schools.
Some may discount the idea that the true value of higher education can be quantified, let alone calculated in dollars.
But given surging student-loan debt nationally, the study’s authors argue it’s a question that cannot be ignored.
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